Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign said it will be putting its voter contact program on pause while it seeks to help vulnerable Kentuckians during the coronavirus outbreak.
“Team Mitch has suspended its voter contact program and is asking Kentuckians if we can be a resource to provide meals for those who are at-risk and cannot get a meal on their own during this difficult time,” Kevin Golden, McConnell’s campaign manager, said in a statement to the Daily Caller.
“We paused our entire voter contact program and turned it into an outreach effort for at-risk Kentuckians,” a McConnell campaign official said. “Phone bank volunteers are now standing by as operators for folks who need help. Staff and volunteers who, under normal circumstances, would be fanning out across the state to canvass and distribute campaign literature have been now tasked with assisting the needy during this difficult time.”
Golden slammed the senator’s opponent Amy McGrath for running attack ads while McConnell’s campaign has suspended voter contact programs.
“As Sen. McConnell leads bipartisan efforts to help Kentuckians and all Americans cope with the impact of the coronavirus, Amy McGrath continues to run millions of dollars in false, negative political advertising designed to tear us apart,” he said. “A candidate whose partisanship and ideology is so extreme that she cannot understand what people need in times of crisis is one that should not represent her political party, let alone the Commonwealth of Kentucky.”
Kentucky has 22 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. Nationwide, there are nearly 6,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 17 people who have recovered.
